Oakland protesters took to the streets last night in solidarity with #Baltimore.

While the recent protests in Baltimore began soon after the death of Freddie Gray on April 19, the mainstream media has only recently arrived on the streets. Similar to their coverage of Ferguson and other protests in the wake of recent police slayings of black Americans, the focus remains on violent clashes between militarized police and angry citizens.

On Tuesday, after the first night of a citywide curfew was met with arrests and tear gas, two tweets were being widely shared which seemed to ironically highlight the ways police routinely lie about the situation on the ground:

Yet even before the curfew went into effect on Tuesday at 10 p.m., a more complex story was playing out in the streets than CNN would lead viewers to believe. Members of the protest, including gang members, were working to de-escalate the situation:

Bloods crips and others moving the crowd away from the police en masse. "We are going home," they say

More importantly, in focusing on violence or property destruction and the curfew, mainstream media reporting has tended to overlook the thousands of other protesters who haven’t lit any fires or broken any windows.

It seems that many throughout the nation are looking to the #BaltimoreUprising as a chance to continue the work that so many began in Ferguson — and a natural extension of the civil rights struggles of so many generations.

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